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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/24 ; C12N 5/10 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12Q 1/34 ; C12P 2/106 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/24 ; C12N 5/10 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12Q 1/34 ; C12P 2/106 ;
Abstract
The present invention concerns mouse brain sialidase gene activity. The invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding sialidase protein, vectors containing and capable of expressing such nucleic acid, and recombinant host cells transformed with such nucleic acid. The invention also provides an amino acid sequence encoding an enzymatically active sialidase that is active in eukaryotic cells. The invention also provides host cells transfected or transformed with recombinant vectors expressing the sialidase gene from mouse brain in the host cells.